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{"title":"Building Our Youth for the Future","authors":"Jonathan B. Krasner","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2102834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2102834","url":null,"abstract":"Even as successive generations of youth reassure their elders, in the words of The Who's 1965 rock anthem, that “the kids are alright,” the adults remain unconvinced. Whether the young are anticipated as agents of progress or continuity, the stakes could not be higher. Hence the imperative articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a 1940 address at the University of Pennsylvania: “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Concern about youth as the future societal pacesetters and custodians is also a common thread that runs through the three articles in this issue of the Journal of Jewish Education. Nowhere is this theme more pronounced than in Helena Miller and Alex Pomson's article, “When the Heart is Stilled: Adolescent Jewish lives Interrupted by COVID-19.” The authors present and analyze the findings of a recent study of adolescents attending Jewish secondary schools in the UK. As the title of the article suggests, the study, which was funded by the Pears Foundation and the Wohl Legacy Foundation, was designed to measure the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the respondents’ “Jewish lives.” While the researchers came into the study interested in documenting the schools’ abilities to respond to the challenges presented by COVID-related restrictions, they soon began wondering whether the cancelation and curtailment of Jewish experiences outside of school, including bar mitzvah celebrations, heritage travel to Israel and Eastern Europe, and youth group activities, might have been even more disruptive to the teens’ solidification of their Jewish identities and sense of collective Jewish belonging. Young people, they found, “have been thrown back on the Jewish resources they found under their own roofs,” with varying outcomes. (p. 2) The study found that the pandemic more negatively impacted teens’ emotional wellbeing and academic plans than their connection to Judaism, the Jewish community, or Israel. Nevertheless, the authors express concern that missed opportunities to attend summer camp and engage in heritage tourism would adversely affect the “Jewish communal ecosystem,” since “the young people for whom these experiences serve as a runway to a life of Jewish activism might find it a lot harder to get off the ground.” (p. 17) Curricular Intellectual Who was Ahead of His Time,” surveys the educational contribution of this former head of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Prior to becoming head of this national-religious stronghold, which was founded in 1924 by Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi in British Mandatory Palestine, Yisraeli was a communal rabbi JOURNAL OF JEWISH EDUCATION 2022, VOL. 88, NO. 3, 177–179 https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2102834","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"177 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46212312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Can I Alter the Statement?” – Considering Holocaust Education as a Catalyst for Civic Education in Jewish Day Schools","authors":"M. Katz","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2084476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2084476","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates ideas about the messages of the Holocaust understood by middle school students in Jewish day schools. Findings explore the conceptualizations students have of the Holocaust as a particular Jewish experience, and in what ways they apply its lessons both particularly and universally. Students in two North American Jewish day schools participated in a fall 2017 Holocaust education unit. Most were able to connect to the particular history of the Holocaust and to engage with universal messages. Their responses suggest a need and opportunity to frame Holocaust education more explicitly in the context of democratic civic education.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"231 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45994837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the Heart is Stilled: Adolescent Jewish Lives Interrupted by COVID-19","authors":"Helena Miller, Alex Pomson","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2075294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2075294","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explored the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Jewish lives of teenagers in Jewish schools in the UK. We found that young people have been thrown back on the resources they locate under their own roofs. For some, it has resulted in a thin version of Jewish life and a sense of disappointment. For others, the Jewish resources at home have been sufficient. While, generally, the tempo of their public Jewish lives has been disrupted, the Jewish rhythm of their lives at home have continued, if more muted than usual.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"180 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44511055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community","authors":"Rabbi Judd Kruger Levingston","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2059270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2059270","url":null,"abstract":"of a year as a set of case studies. Pomson and Wertheimer as as each is unique, no is alone and our schools common. Many of our are shared almost universally by other Jewish day school leaders, teachers, students, and families regardless of geography and prescriptions, it beginning of and general studies, people and pivoting, always mindful of","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"174 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42082663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jewish Education in the Encounter","authors":"Sivan Zakai","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2066374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2066374","url":null,"abstract":"For over two years now, Jewish life has been set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent conversations in the pages of this journal have explicitly foregrounded the pandemic and its impacts on the evolving Jewish educational landscape. Our contributing authors have highlighted the social isolation experienced by young children (Novick et al., 2021) and young adults alike (Olson, 2021), and they have illuminated the technological and pedagogical tools that educators have used to connect learners to Jewish content and to one another (Aron & Hassenfeld, 2022; Gold et al., 2021). One thread that has tied these conversations together is a common desire for what Joshua Ladon (2021) has called “deep encounters” (p. 366). Educators, as Morey Schwartz has demonstrated, “crave connections among one another and within our learning environments” (2022, p. 37), and students want “to be heard by one another,” as Ziva Hassenfeld and her undergraduate students have shown (Stanhill et al., 2021). The ongoing conversations in this journal have repeatedly situated the power and promise of education as occurring in meaningful “encounter with another” (Buber, 1947/2002). Although not designed as a special issue crafted around a single theme, the articles in this issue of the Journal of Jewish Education all pick up on this thread that education happens in the encounter. The articles in this issue focus on three distinct kinds of educational encounters: encounters among teachers, encounters between learners around Jewish content, and encounters between different Jewish cultures. In our first article, Rebecca Shargel spotlights encounters among English, social studies, and Judaic studies teachers at a K-8 liberal Jewish day school. In “‘Let’s Talk About Justice: English, Social Studies, and Judaic Studies Teachers Deliberate About Justice Across the Middle School Curriculum,” Shargel’s qualitative case study demonstrates the powerful cross-disciplinary connections that teachers, and in turn their students, can make when given frameworks for curricular integration and consistent time for co-planning. Although Shargel outlines both the factors that support and those that constrain curricular integration, her study offers promising visions of the possible and next steps for planning, teaching, and professional development for schools that want to encourage meaningful encounters among teachers with different disciplinary training as a way of enhancing student learning. JOURNAL OF JEWISH EDUCATION 2022, VOL. 88, NO. 2, 101–103 https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2066374","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"101 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47231820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli: A Curricular Intellectual Who was Ahead of His Time","authors":"Ari M. Levin","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2054389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2054389","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Chapters on Jewish Thought (Prakim BeMachshevet Yisrael) by Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli is essentially a curriculum for teaching Jewish thought as a school subject in Jewish religious high schools in the 1940s. Therefore, we choose to analyze the book using curricular research tools. We searched for similarities between the curricular approach presented by Rabbi Yisraeli and approaches for organizing knowledge and material that were first introduced in the 1950s by Tyler, Bloom, Lamm, and others, in order to demonstrate that Rabbi Yisraeli was a curricular intellectual who was ahead of his time.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"206 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45166226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Let’s Talk About Justice”: English, Social Studies, and Judaic Studies Teachers Deliberate About Justice Across the Middle School Curriculum","authors":"Rebecca Shargel","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2021.2016034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2021.2016034","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although several prior studies portray integration in Jewish high schools, this study presents a unique example from a Jewish middle school, where a team of 7th-grade teachers met over two years to integrate their disciplines. Investigating factors that facilitated and hindered integration, I found that the following factors helped drive integration forward: administrative support, teachers’ interest, and creating new frameworks. Conversely, factors hindering integration included teachers’ struggles to find connections among subjects and the lack of “follow through” by the administration. The study concludes with implications for professional development.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"104 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48199042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family","authors":"Jonathan B. Krasner","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2029537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2029537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"95 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47467611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Content, Convenience and Community: The Keys to Adult Jewish Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Morey Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2033108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2033108","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A survey of online adult Jewish learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some key elements that have drawn learners aged 65–75 to continued online study. These key elements may play a role in future learner choices and, therefore, might be considered by adult Jewish learning providers in the post-pandemic period. The shift to online learning during the pandemic not only served as a prominent substitute method for the delivery of adult Jewish learning, for many of these learners it also expanded their interest in adult Jewish learning and offered them a significantly more convenient alternative for accessing it. Perhaps most interesting and most significant is the extent to which regular ongoing learning as part of an online cohort of adult learners is offering participants an unexpected, genuine sense of community, something that adult Jewish learners consider to be central to a successful learning experience.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"32 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48635553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Going beyond Zoom to Enrich Learning in Part-time Jewish Schools","authors":"Isa Aron, Ziva R. Hassenfeld","doi":"10.1080/15244113.2022.2026747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2022.2026747","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The use of technology in part-time Jewish schools during the pandemic and beyond has, with few exceptions, been limited to Zoom, a communications platform that works best for frontal teaching and small group discussion. This study focuses on two Jewish educators whose Technological Pedagogic Content Knowledge enables them to deploy a variety of online tools that promote student-centered learning. The teaching exemplars we highlight show what is possible when educators go beyond Zoom, utilizing sophisticated software to engage students in the interpretation of a Biblical text and lively, interactive tefillah.","PeriodicalId":42565,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"5 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42543720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}